The Dietrich Von Bothmer Fragment Collection Online

The Dietrich von Bothmer Fragment Collection Online

The collection is a study resources of over 16,000 fragments of Greek vases assembled yesteryear Dietrich von Bothmer, old caput of the Department of Greek together with Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bothmer began acquiring the pieces inwards the belatedly 1960s, around the fourth dimension he began to teach. On his decease inwards 2009, he bequeathed them to The Met, which accepted them alongside the approving of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Property together with Activity. Between 2013 together with 2018, the Department of Greek together with Roman Art, together alongside the Imaging together with Digital Departments, accessioned, photographed, together with digitized the collection. It is a locomote inwards progress that The Met is pleased to brand available online. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 alternative of fragments is on persuasion inwards gallery 157.

Born inwards 1918, Dietrich von Bothmer joined the Department of Greek together with Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum inwards 1946. He became caput of the Department inwards 1959 together with Chairman inwards 1973 until his retirement inwards 1990; thereafter, he was the Distinguished Research Curator until his death. While his competence extended to all areas of classical art, equally reflected yesteryear his acquisitions, publications, together with teaching, his item expertise lay inwards Greek vase-painting, notably that of Athens.

Following inwards the footsteps of his mentor, the dandy English linguistic communication scholar Sir John Beazley, Bothmer's particular involvement lay inwards reassembling ancient vases—actually, or on paper—from their ingredient pieces that had locomote dispersed. He formed his written report collection inwards large stair out to arrive possible for fragments of vases, many of which came from the backfill of nineteenth-century excavations, to hold out reunited together with joined together. This locomote has benefitted museums worldwide.

The Met website presents the contents of the written report collection and records the identifications that Bothmer provided for the vase fragments. The master copy rubrics are the stuff (the geographical portion where the object was made); the shape of the original whole vase; the champaign of written report of the figural decoration; together with the artist. The bulk of attributions are Bothmer's own; the initial cataloguing has non gone beyond this phase of documenting his work.

Given the large publish of pieces, they direct maintain been subdivided into groups for repose of reference. After the full general accession publish for the entire bequest (2011.604.), the subgroups are:

2011.604.1 Attic red-figure kylikes (cups)
2011.604.2 Attic red-figure shapes other than cups
2011.604.3 Attic black-figure vases
2011.604.4 Attic fragments from the Bothmer together with Love collections
2011.604.5 Black-glaze fragments from Attic cups
2011.604.6 Black-glaze fragments from Attic shapes other than cups
2011.604.8 Corinthian
2011.604.9 Laconian
2011.604.10 Etruscan
2011.604.11 Chalcidian
2011.604.12 South Italian
2011.604.13 East Greek
2011.604.14 Fabric unknown
2011.604.15 Caeretan
2011.604.16 Megarian
2011.604.17 Roman
2011.604.18 Byzantine
2011.604.20 Terracottas
2011.604.21 Bronzes
2011.604.22 Glass
2011.604.23 Miscellaneous Bone together with Ivory 

The photography records the appearance of the fragments, obverse together with reverse. In persuasion of the quantity, they direct maintain non been measured individually precisely seem on a grid criterion 1 cm. The reverses inwards many cases retain the stickers, attached yesteryear Bothmer, that position the twelvemonth inwards which he acquired the fragment together with the source. Some stickers besides betoken dimensions.

Communications to the Museum concerning the fragments may hold out sent to fragmentcollection@metmuseum.org. Appointments to written report the original plant may besides hold out made yesteryear writing to that address. Individuals must betoken the role of their written report together with furnish a list, yesteryear accession number, of the objects they wishing to see.